Flickering Lights

Flickering Lights

2000 · 109 min · ★ 7.2 · Action, Comedy, Crime

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen · Written by Anders Thomas Jensen

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